Service Employees International Union

Tarryl Clark continues to roll up the union endorsements. The latest is from the Service Employees International Union’s state council. About the only politically influential union that hasn’t yet backed Clark in her quest to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is Education Minnesota.

The slow-motion UNITE HERE labor meltdown continues both locally and nationally. The merger of the two storied unions, completed five years ago, has been acrimoniously unraveling over the last nine months. But one local entanglement appears to have resolved itself: This week negotiations will begin on a new contract for roughly 75 workers at the Radisson Hotel in Duluth.